Curriculum Night October 3, 2013
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Curriculum NightOctober 3, 2013
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LITERACY
Balanced Approach to Literacy
The balanced literacy approach includes several components of reading. These components include:* word study* interactive read alouds* independent reading (based on independent reading levels)* book clubs* skills and strategies* conferencing
It is our goal to provide our students withrich literature that will create a passion forreading and writing.
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WRITING
Clarification
Persuasive
Argumentative Research projects
Poetry
Writing is across the curriculum: science, social studies and math.
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SOCIAL STUDIES
Social Studies is integrated with literacy this year. We use a social studies book entitled Social Studies Alive!
We will be covering from pre-Columbian times to the American Civil war.
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ScienceScience is an EOG for fifth grade.
Students receive science instruction five times a week.
We are integrating science informational texts into our literacy block.
Please check out the school website for a full list of science vocabulary.
Forces and MotionMatterEnergyWeather/ClimateHuman BodyEcosystemsEvolution/Genetics
Units of study
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MATH
We are using the Investigations program.
Curriculum:* Multiplication and Division
* Fractions (major focus in 5th grade)
* Decimals
* Volume
* Geometry (minor focus this year)
* Graphing/Ordered Pairs
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The sum of the digits is 7.This number is a multiple of 8
This number of tiles will make a square.This number is less than 45.
NUMBER PUZZLES
CLUE 1 CLUE 2
CLUE 3 CLUE 4
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